Politics
Atiku, Tambuwal, Saraki Unfit For Office, Abdullahi Adamu, Now A Repentant Sinner – Buhari
Atiku Abubakar, Aminu Tambuwal and Bukola Saraki are unfit for public office following their return to the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, President Muhammadu Buhari affirmed on Sunday.
He said this even as he implied that the new national chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Senator Abdullahi Adamu has become a repentant sinner and all his sins forgiven for not returning to the PDP.
President Buhari made the assertions in a statement formally congratulating the new national leadership of the APC led by Senator Adamu.
Pooh-poohing reports of internal divisions in the APC as the handiwork of the media as inspired by the PDP, Buhari in a statement articulated by media aide, Garba Shehu said:
“What the Convention made clear was how the media has been peddling fake news of division, when the hard reality of unity, cohesion, and indeed personal warmth between members of the party’s leaders – incoming and outgoing – was evident for all to see.
“Of course, the blame for this mindset ought rightly to go to the opposition who in all these years had done the work to only divide the country, leading to all manner of separatist agitations.
“But this is not the wish, nor is it in the character of the citizens, as was clear for everyone to see at the Eagle Square.
“When their fake news of disunity was undone by the facts, some in the opposition could not help themselves but take to the newspapers and the airwaves to find another way to shore up their reputations.”
The President also commented on the allegation that the new Chairman of the APC and some of the executive members were former PDP members.
Against the background of claims that the new APC national chairman, Adamu was once a hardened PDP member, he said:
“That some of the APC’s new leadership were once in the opposition was the new line to take to the media, somehow suggesting that those who have left one party should not hold positions in another. Yet, do the Scriptures not teach us of the virtue of sinners who repent and change their ways?
Noting the fact that the three major PDP candidates from the north, Atiku, Tambuwal and Saraki were once in the APC but have now returned to the PDP, Buhari said that it showed that they were unfit for public office.
“What the Scriptures say less is of sinners who repent, change their tune, and then choose to re-sin in full public view by returning to their former ways. Given that most important leaders of the opposition PDP first left the party before they returned to it, we might expect the media to ensure criticism of them is damning and absolute.
“It is incredulous that anyone would consider them trustworthy or acceptable candidates for any public office.”
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